SHIPPING. PORT OF GREY.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1805, 19 May 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF GREY.

HIGH WATER. :, Tm Day— l2.o a.m. ; 12.28 p.m. - ARRIVKD. May 18— Arthur Wakefield, schooner, from Ly4,teltuu.^~'-Jw-H» J ««^wK - , -....^ m . Waipara, jJaacand, , from Hokitika. . Nan-. carrow and Co,{ agents. 1 -- ; » i" ■'^ '■■ .-'!'": «i»«V£z.-.-'.- ■ v ¥ aAu,Bi>. . ..„.,.,. „w , May 18— D^a^h,,p ? 8,,for^okitika. " EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Charles Edward, from Nelson. Murray, fronVNelaoiu . ; , Kennedy, from' Nelson. Spray, from Lyttelton; ; Mary Ogilvie, from Duriedin and Camaru. . Tararna, from Melbourne; ; ; <\ Otago, from Melbourne. >„'"i-.. Alhambra, from Melbourne. Alice Maud, from Melbourne. •'•"'"' ! /( VESSELS DT PORT. Wallice^froniNelsdnJ' " ! •. Kaiuma, from [Lyttelton. . ; ...... Waipara, from Hokitika. Arthur Wakefield, from Lyttelton.

... „ IMP6!RTS. )?i (A special charge'is made ion consignees' an- ' ■ nouncemeriW inserted in this 1 column.) Per Arthur Wakefieldi' from Lyttelton : 100 kegs butter, 1 do-jowls, 1 bag clover seed, 100 sacks wheat} /l Oh sacks grass seed, 40 do potatoes, 80 cheeses, 99 sacks bran, 2 tons 'flour; 280 •'sack* oatsf2 cases jowls, 4 cases hams and baconj 30 sacks bats, 25 kegs butter. ; , „.,.;.'.

The B.s. Waipara is announced, to leave this Sprt to-day at one o'dlock for Wellington irect.-:: ;;. • •. ,-.-;■ .[: - „-:■■■} . .-I: -.' r :The schooner Arthur, Wakefield, from Lyttelton. Having arrived off the bar yesterday morning, was, on early 'tide; tendered by the Dispatch, and safely brought to the wharf. Captain' Watts reports leaving Lyttelton last Wedbefsday^ 'anid [tarrying S.E. winds with fiSm^lFneair r his~ dest natibnT when ihey failed him. As it is he;has made a good run, and brings .bis cargo in excellent condition. Boring Saturday night and Sunday last, when Greymouth was experiencing the effects of a violent gale^, Captain Watts states that he, although some distahcesouth of Charleston, was lying in almost a dead calm.. The Arthur ' Wakefield is consigned to Messrs Woolcock and Co.

lathe New Zealand Gazette; May 7, it is notified that his Excellency the ' -overuor has been pleased to confirm the sentences of the Courts of Inquiry into the' wreaks of the Silver .lining, Cyrus.* aiid Wellington j and and 'thai ; the certificate of - competency as master, issued by' the ' M arine : Board of Sew SoutH'Walea. No. &,' held'by «Tam«s Taylor, is therefore suspended for a period of «ix months from .the 25th March last ; the certificate of competency ai master, issueii by the Bteam Navigition B >ard of Victoria, No. 41, held by Po'well Andrews, is suspended for a period of twelvemonths fromthe 19th March hat ; and that the certificate of. service, issued by the Marino Board of , New' South Wales, No. 62; held 'by Hebry Edward < ill, is suspended for a period cf six months from 19th March last

!> <■. N..V.' :i>V : The Belfast JVeuw 2>e«er says a public trial o£-iJ)olby^..Wa:er.botDla-LiferbuoyJLtook place recently jmthe^ harbor, near Qu en's j bridge, in the' presence 'of "a large coucourae ' of. "people; At two o'clock precisely a" full- ; grown laboring man : jumped : "into theiriver] with his f hoots and clothes on. and nothing i more- to'fifloat him ( th»iii a' '• tin 1 waler-can. ! knbwn : iiy' the > name 1 bf ; '-DdU>y's Patent' Water-bottle • ifebuby " The effect of this, water-can was that, although the mm was j offered money by some of thisi bystanders if j t'e' could Bink himself for a few- sec >n (8 : , be found if nttefly iinpossib'elio do so.- The next experiment tried was still -nore startling, J •for'jthe.inan- havinsf -ecured: au add tional j wirer-cin to his b ck, again 'went into' the { waier with a 141 b weight in one hand ' and *a I 71b weight in the other, and, notwithstmd-f in^ thisi; he was inabiisd to carrV. hiJ head' high one of the water. At the termina'itn! bf : the trial the inventor, who was piesent, Vas oobgratulated on the sucCeasfulresuit of the experiments This new lifebuoy is made in the form of a parallelogram, about 3in . '•de<spi : with rounded edges; aud'sliifjtly curved -to nt'the body, 1 to which ie ; can be strapped.; ■ J lt' is ' a simple tin water-bottle, - capable of) cotiUming 'five or six ■ dttarts. i ' It? is con-! j c vertible : at a moment's notice into a lif«buoyj ' 6£ : tHfe Vi best descriptions- The useful bottle is only a li'tle beyend that ofj ■pie 1 ordinary bottle which- the' emigrant is) compelled to have amongst his equipments, f